If you feel ashamed about not having done interesting things in your life thus far, consider consoling yourself with the notion of past lives Perhaps mighty deeds of heroism or villainous betrayals you perpetuated in past lives can outweigh the boredom of this life I consider the comfort provided by this thought to be a strong incentive to believe in past and future lives
This is just kicking the can down the road. What if past lives simply aren't real? What if it's all cope? See, that's exactly the problem. Yes, we all lie to ourselves to a certain extent, that's often the only way to stay sane, but it's become an epidemic. Everybody lives in a bubble of comfort, rotting away inside their cages, enjoying the sickly sweet smell of their own comfortable decay. All that to say, this is a time for heroes. Now more than ever, the common man is pacified, and those in power have become fat and made themselves obvious, believing themselves to be untouchable. They've been entrenching their power for decades, ever since the end of the second World War; many of what ails us today began in the 70s, although some are modern inventions, and others stretch back to the 1800s. Regardless, the answer is obvious if meaning is what you crave. Educate yourself and act. Learn how to learn, and learn different things, different perspectives, ideologies, and cultures. Learn a different language; often, foreign languages contain words to describe concepts we in English simply can't concisely express. You'll know you've mastered yourself when your thoughts flow like water, in one unified moral system. Then, you're ready to act. I worry that by saying this to you, I may he uncanning something evil, but reality skews toward good. If a man is truly educated, he should hate only the hateful, the greedy, and the treacherous. But what do I know?
